This reminds me of the Alan Addis case, where a Royal Marine went missing in the Falklands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Royal_Marine_...
In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope you're not assuming Midsomer Murders bears much resemblance to real life. :) (Source: until a couple of years ago, we lived in one of the Oxfordshire locations where it frequently films.)
Let's encourage that belief. I'd like house prices to fall there
Has that worked for you before?
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I decided idyllic English villages aren't for me, after watching Hot Fuzz and Midsomer Murders.
I hope you're not assuming Midsomer Murders bears much resemblance to real life. :) (Source: until a couple of years ago, we lived in one of the Oxfordshire locations where it frequently films.)
Thanks, yes, I'd love to live there. I was just joking.
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#104I’m more amazed that a town of 11 people has a bar and a hotel. But also that so much drama exists in such small community.
Easier for drama to escalate when everyone knows everyone and the town is so small you can't escape each other.
You get into an argument with someone in NYC and you can go your own way and never see them again even if you live in the same city or even the same neighborhood. Get into an argument with someone in a small town and everyone knows about it by the time you get home and battle lines get drawn.
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#105Does this strike anyone else as a real-life version of Clue playing out?
> Mr. Laurie killed Mr. Moriarty with (gardening tools?) at the Tea House
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#106Reminds me a bit of the Bobby Dunbar story: > In 1912 a four-year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing in a swamp in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found in the hands of a wandering handyman in Mississippi. In 2004, Bobby Dunbar's granddaughter discovered a secret beneath the legend of her grandfather's kidnapping, a secret whose revelation would divide her own family, bring redemption to another, and becom…
> While one (almost certainly fictional) account indicated that the boy immediately shouted "Mother" upon seeing her and the two then embraced Fake news..
seems like a lot of people down-vote certain keywords without first figuring out context..
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
> While one (almost certainly fictional) account indicated that the boy immediately shouted "Mother" upon seeing her and the two then embraced Fake news..
seems like a lot of people down-vote certain keywords without first figuring out context..
I personally think that particular term has been subverted to the point of being absolutely devoid of any meaning or humor and should really just not be used anymore.
[Edit: I was not a down voter, but perhaps the down voters shared my perspective]
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
seems like a lot of people down-vote certain keywords without first figuring out context..
I personally think that particular term has been subverted to the point of being absolutely devoid of any meaning or humor and should really just not be used anymore. [Edit: I was not a down voter, but perhaps the down voters shared my perspective]
Isn't it humorous to see actual fake/false news, in a historical context, labelled with the modern nomenclature?
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
That book is so full of nonsense. It’s a string of desperate theories that strive to explain present-day tensions in such a way that ignores the context of present-day. The milieus of turbo consumerism and associated economic strife are in conflict with certain less-compatible self-identities, and not others. This underwrites everything the book aims to address with far more cohesion (as is often the case with succes…
wow. this is so po-mo it's beyond criticism, into conspiracy theory. are you literally saying he "made it up" or are you projecting something else here?
Haha, I guess this is a fair response, but you're misinterpreting my point. I'll explain.
I don't think he "made it up", and I don't want to accuse him of blaming somebody, but I don't know how else to put it. In so many words, he basically says that, at the end of the day, the culture he's writing about is riddled with it's own shortcomings and needs to be brought to an end. Whether he alludes to historical economic strife or not (he does some), his ultimate assessment is that it's too late to do anything but save these poor souls. He communicates this idea with a lot of contention, because otherwise he would have been dismissed much sooner. A lot of the issues he writes about are legitimate, but he takes a mistaken turn towards accusing the traditions and personalities of his family.
It's not a 2-dimensional issue. Those traditions and parsonalities exist, but they are far more principled than the neoliberal traditions he promotes. And for whatever truth there is to his historical explanations, there is loads more that he avoids. His insistence on attributing present-day tensions to something like "outdatedness" is extremely ignorant.
The word for this turn that he takes is just hopelessly congruent with neoliberalism, and, unfortunately, it does serve his agenda quite well. He's got a partnership with a VC who aims to capitalize on techish business deals in the rust belt. Presumably, the VC aims to play savior and ultimately rip a lot of people off.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
I personally think that particular term has been subverted to the point of being absolutely devoid of any meaning or humor and should really just not be used anymore. [Edit: I was not a down voter, but perhaps the down voters shared my perspective]
Isn't it humorous to see actual fake/false news, in a historical context, labelled with the modern nomenclature?
Slightly humorous, probably passes the bar on reddit but not here.